The Observatory: Tim Burton, clearly the most typecasted director in Hollywood

We have all been brainwashed. Some of us may not have even known it until reading this, but it's true. We have all been brainwashed into thinking that Tim Burton is an excellent filmmaker; albeit he once was, but not anymore.
For years we have been dazzled by his eerie filmmaking style, strange motifs, and zany characters. The only problem here is: most of these characters have already been developed by literary figures and/or other filmmakers and Burton's style never really progresses or matures. And to my knowledge, it does not seem as if anyone really seems to notice. These issues need to be addressed and truth needs to come out now.
Let's start with some of his earlier works. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Beetlejuice, Batman Returns, and Edward Scissorhands were all admittedly great films. They were truly innovative for their time and showed great promise for Tim Burton's directorial career, but that starts to unravel from here.
Burton's most praised claim to filmmaking fame came next with The Nightmare Before Christmas in 1993. Though Burton did not direct, he developed the characters and story, as well as produced the film. To be honest, I never even saw it. Any chance of having an enjoyable experience while watching the movie has been ruined by seeing countless tweens and teens sporting The Nightmare Before Christmas t-shirts and sweat jackets.
Moving on, Burton next tackles the life of b-horror director, Ed Wood. He does the movie in black and white and stars Johnny Depp in the title role. The film is not well received commercially, so what does Burton do? He goes back to making stop-motion animation musicals by producing James and the Giant Peach.
After that he does a couple more spooky films, but not really worth mentioning for the sake of argument. Let's just say they were commercial flops and move on, though Johnny Depp stars once again in the leading role of one of them and Burton borrowed the story from Washington Irving. (It's Sleepy Hollow.)
Next comes a "re-imagining" of Planet of the Apes, not a remake as Tim Burton stated making the film. This film sees Burton's girlfriend, Helena Bonham Carter for the first time.
Big Fish is the next film. It is a cute story and enjoyable. However, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory follows two years later and diminishes any hope of Tim Burton diversifying himself as a filmmaker. It was adapted from the Roald Dahl book and is yet another remake of the story.
Uh-oh, here comes more spooky-ness with Corpse Bride. After that comes Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a play adaptation, and Alice in Wonderland, a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book by the same name. With the exception of Big Fish, what do all of these films have in common? They were all filmed with the same unchanging Burton style and they all star Depp and Carter in leading roles.
Now Burton is planning to adapt a cheesy 60s soap opera, Dark Shadows, into a film and remake one of his earlier short films, Frankenweenie. It is not difficult to adapt other works and remake your own films, Tim Burton. Please come up with something original for a change. 
With all that being said, Tim Burton really needs to change his style and stop casting the same actors in every movie and we all need to start realizing this and boycott these movies. Failure only has the potential to force him to digress from the norm, otherwise the trend will continue and Burton will just continue to type-cast himself and tarnish his legacy in the filmmaking industry.